Privilege Escalation News Today

Cisco: The vulnerabilities reported in the companys product ConfD CLI could allow the authenticated, low-privileged, local attacker "to read and write arbitrary files as root or elevate privileges to root on the underlying operating system", CERT-In said in its latest advisory.

According to the cyber agency, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing an affected CLI command. In addition, CERT-In advised users to apply appropriate updates as released by Cisco.

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technolog

The device management company added a Fleet Hardening Score and Privilege Escalation (the good kind) to its endpoint security platform for Apple devices.

Mapping the most common active adversary attack techniques with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).

Privilege escalation is a step in the attack chain where a threat actor gains access to data they are not permitted to see. Learn everything you need to know now.

The reality is no network is immune to the reach of privilege escalation attacks. These cyber threats can quietly infiltrate your systems, potentially causing significant damage to your data integrity and overall business continuity.

Microsoft, Apple, and Linux all had major vulnerabilities brought to light last week. Discover how they affect you.

Major security flaws hit Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Linux, Android and more, highlighting the need for strong patching practices.